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APCRC - Q Seminar Series Event - International Speakers

Featuring Special Guests from the University of California in San Francisco.
Event Type Seminar
When Jul 19, 2012
from 08:30 PM to 10:30 PM
Where Russell Strong Auditorium, Basement Level, PA Hospital
Contact Name
Contact Phone 07 3176 1894
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Christine Miasowski

Dr Christine Miaskowski

Professor, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs

Sharon A. Lamb Endowed Chair, School of Nursing                                                                                                                                                                                                  University of California, San Francisco

"Predictors of the Trajectories of Sleep Disturbance in Patients Undergoing Radiation Therapy for Prostate Cancer"

Dr Christine Miaskowski is a Professor and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, and Sharon A. Lamb Endowed Chair in the School of Nursing, University of California, San Francisco.  She is the first nurse to be awarded an American Cancer Society Clinical Research Professorship.  Dr Miaskowski is an internationally recognised expert in pain and symptom management.  Her research focuses on determining which phenotypic and genotypic characteristics predict patients with the most severe symptoms, evaluating the deleterious effects of unrelieved symptoms of patient outcomes, and developing and testing interventions to decrease symptoms in patients with cancer.  She is a prolific author with over 350 peer-reviewed publications and four books.

Current Areas of Teaching:

  • Oncologic Emergencies
  • Pain Management
  • Symptom Management Research

 

Professional Activities:

  • American Pain Society
  • International Association for the Study of Pain
  • Multinational Association for Supportive Care in Cancer

 

Brad Aouzierat

Dr Bradley Aouizerat

Assistant Professor

School of Nursing

University of California, San Francisco

“Evidence of associations between cytokine genes and subjective reports of sleep disturbance in oncology patients and their family caregivers”

Dr Bradley Aouizerat is a Professor in the School of Nursing and also the Institute for Human Genetics at the University of California, San Francisco.  He is a molecular biologist and genetic epidemiologist and is an internationally recognised expert in the genetics of symptoms in the setting of chronic disease.  His research focuses on determining which phenotypic and molecular (i.e. genetic, epigenetic) characteristics predict patients with the most severe symptoms and in the characterization of the molecular characteristics that influence treatment and its side-effects in patients with chronic disease.

Current Projects / Practice

Of particular interest to the A/Professor's lab is the role of common genetic variations in dyslipidemia, a risk factor for both cardiovascular diseases. Currently, they are investigating four clinical populations with discrete cardiovascular diseases: familial combined hyperlipidemia, hypoalphalipoproteinemia, hyperalphalipoproteinmia and normolipidemic controls. In addition, the lab investigates the impact of these same genetic variants on insulin resistance-related phenotypes, such as diabetes, obesity and non-alcoholic steatohepatitis.

 

Russell Strong Auditorium
Basement Level, Main Building, Princess Alexandra Hospital
Brisbane

Refreshments: from 4.30pm
Presentations: 5.00pm-6.00pm
Networking: 6.00pm-6:30pm

RSVP for catering purposes: prostatecentre@qut.edu.au